Who We Are

Over the past thirteen years, Andy Anderson has become the go-to expert in energy commodity markets, sustainability reporting, utility tariffs, and utility data analytics. Leveraging his futures and options trading experience and Columbia Business School education with a focus on data analytics and decision making, Andy advises some of the largest real estate portfolios across the US on their energy and sustainability management practices. As CEO at WatchWire, Andy helps clients turn energy data into actionable analytics for use by all roles within an organization – sustainability, operations, engineering, finance/accounting, and procurement. He leads WatchWire’s teams in managing utility data globally across all verticals for >$5bn energy spend across >800M ft2; as well as working with the product management and development team in creating, refining, and maintaining WatchWire’s industry-leading sustainability and energy management SaaS platform.

Andy graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College and holds an MBA with Dean’s Graduation Honors from Columbia Business School. Andy is a Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs (graduate school), teaching Energy Management for Portfolios: Putting Policy into Practice, as well as a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School’s New Developments in Energy Markets.

Al has twenty years of broad operating and sales experience, scaling early-stage businesses, and leading large global organizations. Al has led multiple companies to successful exits including Neebula Systems and DiamondIP Technologies. As the Chief Sales Officer at EnergyWatch, Al leads the sales and business development efforts for our market-leading energy and sustainability platform WatchWire. Al’s responsibilities include Direct & Indirect Sales, Sales Strategy, and Sales Operations.

Diana Sweeney co-founded WatchWire in 2000.  She has over 25 years of industry experience encompassing a background in both energy services and real estate management. She has extensive experience working with clients in managing their energy needs and has negotiated unique incentives for clients.  Diana also serves as the Executive Director of the New York Energy Consumers Council, representing the interests of the largest commercial real estate owners in New York City.  Prior to co-founding WatchWire, Diana was the Director of Energy Services for Insignia/ESG, and also held positions in the Legal and Property Management Divisions at the company.  Diana is a past Enterprising Women’s “Women of the Year” Finalist and Energy New York Awards honoree. She has volunteered her time as founder and manager of a reading program in Brooklyn for children with incarcerated parents, a one-to-one mentor with the NY Public School system, and as a volunteer with the Special Olympics. Diana holds a Master of Science degree in Real Estate Investment from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John’s University.

Syed is a technology Leader with 15 years of consulting and software engineering experience in energy and financial services. He is a logical and highly intuitive individual with the ability to deliver time-critical, detail-oriented projects. Syed brings together his subject matter expertise in Agile software development with unparalleled project management, problem solving and presentation skills. Technology leader for the software engineering team focused on delivering web-based analytical platforms for the management and reporting of energy related data. Lead developer of ASP hosted credit risk management system for clients. Utilized J2EE technology to create web-layer consisting of JSP, Servlet and Spring based technologies. Web-services were created to provide XML interface to integrate with clients’ proprietary risk information systems. Project manager for implementation of automated institutional risk management system via the use of Actimize trade monitoring models. Syed is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook with a BS in Computer Science and Columbia Business School with an MBA.